Migration to Terrestrial Digital Broadcasting

It may be more than just replacement of TV set for you to get to watch terrestrial digital broadcasts at home.

To watch them, in some cases, you will be forced to reinstall the wires running inside and/or outside your house.

If your house is out of the coverage area of the digital airwaves, you would be required to subscribe to a cable TV service.

For watching terrestrial digital broadcasts, you need to be aware well of how ready you are now anyway.

Why delayed? (2)

In the process of terrestrial digital TV broadcasting signals (sound and video) are coded, compressed, and modulated at the TV station and then sent over the air/cable.

After the signals are received on a digital TV set, they are demodulated, decompressed, and decoded.

This series of signal processings leads to the latency that is not perceived when you watch analog broadcasts.

Why delayed? (1)

You would see your favorite slugger hit a homerun about two seconds later on a digital TV set than those who watch the ball game on a traditional analog one.

Farewell to analog broadcasts

Do you know that your traditional TV set with a 4:3 (horizontal to vertical ratio) screen CRT display will be likely to become only a heavy dumb box in July 2011?